This one-tube shortwave portable was featured 85 years ago this month in  the February 1933 issue of Short Wave Craft.

The set was awarded honorable mention in a contest sponsored by the magazine, and had been designed for a trip by the author to northern Michigan, where neither AC power nor replacement batteries would be available. Therefore, the main design consideration was low battery drain.  The set was built in the venerable cigar box, which housed all of the parts, including batteries and  antenna.

The author noted that the set could also be used as a shortwave converter with a broadcast receiver by running a wire to the phono input of the radio.  The author reported pulling in W1 and W4 stations at Detroit using only a copper screen in the lid of the radio as an antenna.